Rolled out an update today: Version 0.7.5731-Beta
What's New
- Verse of the Day (VOTD) now loads both from Bible.com and BibleGateway.com
VOTD will start showing up on its own, but if you aren't seeing it yet this might be why:
To active VOTD you must first play through a few verses. After you close the app completely, on the next app open it should show up. You will know it is the verse of the day because at the bottom instead of the option to select a Bible version you will see some text like "Verse of the day...". If it still doesn't appear, there might not be a puzzle for that day (or for that version for that day). Try another Bible version, make sure the app is allowed to use the Internet, or check back the next day.
Some days certain Bible versions don't have a VOTD because the puzzle generator backend that I built needs some work, but for now, most days a verse of the day should show up in the app.
Road Map
These are the things I hope to build into the app someday. These may or may not happen but they are what I am currently working on behind the scenes.
- Play Packs:
Idea: Groups of verses ("Play Packs") instead of randomly selected verses.
Progress: Haven't started. - Custom Play Packs:
Idea: User generated puzzles saved into play packs.
Progress: Built a puzzle generator. Needs a user interface and is waiting on main menu with play packs to be completed first. - Mini games:
Idea: Playable mini-games (for example they could be similar to: pong, flappy-bird, minesweeper, etc.) the purpose being to break up game play and to acquire power-ups to be used on puzzles.
Progress: Haven't started. - Power-ups:
Idea: Gained from mini-games, storable and usable for things like narrowing the keyboard to only letters for the current word, solving all of one letter on the puzzle, etc.
Progress: Haven't started. Waiting on mini-games to be completed first. - Sounds:
Idea: Default to off but allow to be toggled on
Progress: Haven't started. - Better Graphics/Animation:
Idea: After core functionality is built in I hope to start working on the graphics, animation, and general "gamification" of the app.
Progress: Added in some playful animations but they caused lots of issues and had to remove them. Need to start over with these.